Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center)

The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center) (CPN(M)), formerly known as the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), is a Marxist-Leninist communist political party in Nepal that was founded in 1994 by Pushpa Kamal Dahal (also known as "Prachanda"). The party was one of many Nepalese communist parties to form in the early 1990s, and it led governments from 2008 to 2009, from 2013 to 2015, and from 2016 to 2017.